Moving-picture toy.



M. TANIKAWA.

MOVING PICTURE TOY.'

APPLICATION FILED APR. le, Isls.

1,151,977. n Patented Aug. 31, 1915.

Inventor:

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MASASHI TANIKAWA, F NEW- YORK, Y.

MOVING-PICTURE TOY.

Speeicatioin of Letters Patent. Patented Aug. 31, 1915.

Application filed April 16, 1915. Serial No. 21,8047. I

T0 allwhom t may Concern.'

Be it known that I, MAsAsHr TANIKAWA, .a subject of the Mikado of Japan, residing in the borough of Brooklyn, New Yorkcity, in the county of Kings. and State of New vYork, have invented certain new and useful 'Improvements in Moving-Picture Toys,

- of which the following is a specification.-

My invention relates to moving vpicture toys and my object is the production ofa -simple, cheap device for the amusement of children, which will produce the illusion of a vmoving picture, whenv viewed on a screen. In the drawing Figurevl is aview, partly in section, ofthe device and Fig. 2 a like view taken at right angles to the first.

The toy comprises a box 1 having a front 2 carrying a lens '3, a mirror 4 extends at ank angle of o from the front bottom edge to the top rear edge and reflects the image formed by the lens toeaiground glass screen` 5 forming the top of the box.l A hood 6 protects the ground glass from the direct light rays and may be folded down over the ground glass to protect it when not in use.

To produce thel illusion of moving `pictures a rotary disk`7 is mounted adjacentto .the lens with the alternate cut-out parts 8 and solid parts' 9. This disk is preferably perforated at the edge 10. A second disk l1 is mounted at the side ofthe box12, at right angles to the rst. and is provided with teeth 11- which engage the perforations at 10 on the disk 7. A handle 13 on the disk 11 projects through the side of the box and on rotating the handle the diskll revolves,4

rotating the disk 7 with it, causing the light beams passing .through the lens to 'be 1nterrupted thereby causing the peculiar flickering image of a moving picture of any objects toward which the toy may be pointed Nto appear on the ground glass screen. `The disk 7 may be Weighted at 14 so that the Aing the disk.

-to receive the image, an apertured disk adjacent to the lens and means for rotating said disk.

2. In a toy, ,abox, a lensv in the front thereof, a mirror therein Aon which the.

image is formed, a viewing screen thereover to receive the image, an apertured disk adjacent to the lens provided with apertures near its edge;4 a second disk at right angles to the first, projections on the edge of the second disk engaging' the perforations on the first and a handle ond disk.

for revolving the sec- 3. Ina toy, auibox, a lens in the front thereof, a mirror therein on which the image is formed, a viewing screen thereo'ver,

an apertured disk` adjacent to the lens,

means for rotating the disk and a device for simulating the clicking sound of aimovingl.

picture machine.

4.In'a toy, a box, a lens in the front thereof, a mirrorv therein on which the image. is formed, a viewing screen thereover, an apertured disk adjacent to the lens weiited on one sidetoicauseit to cover the lens Awhen stationary, and means for rotat- In testimony whereof I signature in presence of two witnesses.

MAsAsHI TANIKA'WA. Witnesses: v

RoB'r.B. K ULGORE, f

MARY M. LIPP.

have aHiXed my 

